The scientific classification of Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus includes the entire classification chart that includes kingdom, family, clade, tribe etc. A kingdom is the second highest taxonomic rank. A taxonomic rank is the level that a living organisms are placed in hierarchical level of arrangement of life forms. All the living organisms are divided into kingdoms. Plant kingdom is a main classification of living organisms that include all plants. There are six kingdoms which are: Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Aschaea/Archaeabacteria and Bacteria Eubacteria. Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus family is a major factor of Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus Scientific Classification. Plant family helps you narrow the search of your plants. It also gives you idea about, how the plant looks, how the seed will be like etc. These two plant families can be different or same. Sweet Potato Vine belongs to the family Convolvulaceae and Moonlight cactus belongs to the family Cactaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Ipomoea and other plant's genus is Selenicereus. Sweet Potato Vine tribe is Not Available and Moonlight cactus tribe is Hylocereeae. Sweet Potato Vine clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Solanales whereas Moonlight cactus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllales. Every plant have subfamilies. Sweet Potato Vine subfamilies are, Not Available and Moonlight cactus subfamilies are Cactoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Sweet Potato Vine and Moonlight cactus and other products also.